Scott Scheibe wrote: > > I understand there are 6 or 7 volumes of GAG. I was wondering if anyone > has a database with gedcom capability of GAG or has considered creating > one? I am slowly working on a database for the copy of Descendents of > Capt. Henry WOODWARD book I have in my possession. It is only one volume > and I know the amount of time I've put into it so far just to get 10% of it > done. I can imagine with what I'm doing with the WOODWARD information what > it would take to do with the GAG, a tremendous undertaking. I've made > estimates from what I've accomplished on the Woodward book and guess's on > how many pages in it > (it was numbered once but many additions were added later on and not > renumbered) that there is some where around 4-5 thousand people listed in > the Woodward book. It is not a big book, I guess around 300 letter sized > pages, text on both sides. > There is an easier way though to do it. First what is needed is a started > database of George Aldrich's family, say a couple generations out. Then > everyone could contribute what information they have beyond that in the > form of gedcoms. What the standards of data verification would have to > hashed out by the people involved in such a project. Once the project had > some measure of completeness a gedcom of the database could be made > available to searchers of Aldrich roots from the Aldrich association home > page, the Ancestry gedcom world tree, and other sites that might be > appropriate. What think ye? > > D. Scott Scheibe > dsscheibe@earthlink.net I think you know from others, I have the largest database on web. The only other one is on paper - Robert Criswell has them but only male lines plus one generation of females. In my case ALL descendants male and female. http://www.wasatch.com/~dsam/aldrich I have more to add. The database at present time contain around 7,000 including spouses. This is from the submitted sheets the Aldrich LDS members sent to the LDS Church Family History Library archives and a good part from volume 1 and small part of vol 2. I have yet to get back in the track to get going to get 3 to 6. Mrs. A. J. Aldrich has volume 7 that is not published yet. The NAA officers are looking for ways to get that volume published and marketed in her children's behalf. There are quite a number of errors contained in those GAG books. That is what this list is for - to share primary sources information and requests for corrections from different sources. W. David Samuelsen